I read the first paragraph of this post, and before reading the rest I said to myself, “I sure hope this person has a good model for why parties exist in the first place so they can ensure that their replacement actually works.” Unfortunately, the rest of the post didn’t pan out.
I’m very sympathetic to your goals here, but without a better model for the behavior of political coalitions, I strongly suspect that these proposed solution will either fail or make things worse. In particular we need to consider both the intra-parliamentary function of parties (allowing representatives to coordinate with each other), but also the public, communicative function of parties to allow voters to choose a candidate and have a good model for his behavior without having to invest tons of time.
I read the first paragraph of this post, and before reading the rest I said to myself, “I sure hope this person has a good model for why parties exist in the first place so they can ensure that their replacement actually works.” Unfortunately, the rest of the post didn’t pan out.
I’m very sympathetic to your goals here, but without a better model for the behavior of political coalitions, I strongly suspect that these proposed solution will either fail or make things worse. In particular we need to consider both the intra-parliamentary function of parties (allowing representatives to coordinate with each other), but also the public, communicative function of parties to allow voters to choose a candidate and have a good model for his behavior without having to invest tons of time.